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XIX Thurs Oct. 12 5:30 pm Sweetie, Odd's and ends to begin with - I can't understand why you’re not getting my mail regularly now, and I'm so sorry - yours are reaching me every day or occasionally a skip and then two and it's good to have them so, but usually it works the other way around. I’d really rather you got mine regularly than the other way around. However, I suppose we just have to be patient. Dana Nickelsburg, just in case you should ever want to look her up, is living at #1 21st Ave., San Francisco (Mrs. Stephen). What's that about you’re not being able to send me newspapers? Does it apply to magazines too? If so, I’d better have [Amerania?] sent directly to me and then mail it back to you which I'm pretty sure I can do. Let me know. Do write the Krafts a little note apologizing for our sudden silence - you need only explain the circumstances. I'm sending a postcard. Add to your list of things to send me if you run across any - a pocketknife (Boy Scout type) with all the gadgets on it. That indispensable item is unpurchasable around here. It's supposed to be hard to shop for servicemen, but I can think of dozens of things I need or would like! But I'll only tell you the things that seem to me important - you've enough to keep you busy now. Another thing I’d sort of like if you find it unpacking is my hole punch, which would be in constant use. But it's not important enough to unpack anything especially to look for it. (It's probably in a box of stationery junk) I looked for cotton prints for you the other day [pg 2] when Henry, Steve, and I were shopping - spent some time tracking them down with no success. Found very few but altogether inappropriate ones - just dark colors. Nearly everything on the island is rayon. Saw some nice gay rayon prints in Sears Roebuck (lovely store here, and quite a find - got some buttons, china cement, saddle soap) but tho they looked native you could probably get them anywhere in the States (Everything here refers to “The States” or “Stateside” even those who never heard the expression before adopt it automatically) Another deficiency is trappings and ribbon. Absolutely none of the latter - just white string! And nothing but white gift paper. The Kodak [B?] sounds like a good buy at $15 if it's the one I'm thinking of, honey. Can you get more particulars on it? I love you. (Had a wonderful dream last night - left me feeling very warm and mellow this morning. I must leave the action detail to your imagination Hastily (Friday afternoon at the office) Warren (just picked this off a bush in front of where I live)
